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what’s everyone’s go-to sources for nature (ocean, shells, fishes) themed button-ups??

i’m in need of a sickening defense outfit!!

Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW

I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

how is it 2025 and we still have to remind scientists that science IS POLITICAL

scientist are PEOPLE and some of us would really like to keep having rights!!!

omg

Sick and tired of spending time to submit thoughtful cover letters to already filled jobs with postings that only exist for HR reasons

dnd party gets attacked by a pack of wolves that serve the Big Bad

tired: kill the wolves

wired: befriend the wolves

inspired: unionize the wolves to demand better working conditions from the Dark Lord

MULTICLUST - Fast multinomial clustering of multiallelic genotypes to infer genetic population structure Identifying population structure from multilocus genotype data is key to downstream population genetic analyses in a variety of fields, including conservation, evolutionary genetics, Genome-Wide Assoc...

Excited for this to finally see the light of day - new preprint from my lab, where we present a fast, accurate maximum likelihood tool to estimate population structure, called MULTICLUST. We extend the model of Alexander et al 2009 (ADMIXTURE) to multiallelic data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

We've got 35 sets of these posters left.

This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms.

Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc!

squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

still takes me by surprise after 5 years in indiana 💔

It's probably(?) not homophobia, but when small things like this keeps happening, it's hard to think otherwise

Was at a really nice department event where they were giving out free t-shirts.

Another grad student asked if he could grab a t-shirt for his girlfriend, and the staff happily agreed! I thought it was cute and went up to ask if i could grab a t-shirt for my boyfriend and I got a hard "no"...

congrats Brian!!!!

Fringe-lipped bat mid-flight, eavesdropping on the calls of male túngara frogs, which it uses to find its prey. Photo by Christian Ziegler.

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨

Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness

*Open Access!* in @jexpbiol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

w/ Dineilys Aparicio, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Rachel Page, & @xebernal.bsky.social

🧵
Photo by Christian Ziegler

Thank you!!! Happy to see the lil snail up on the cover 🐚

i feel similarly. i can rationalize why im struggling with finding a job given **everything** but it’s really hard to not take it personally sometimes

I've be struggling to be honest, it's really hard after we have done everything we were supposed to and then we get to the finish line with what feels like nothing. I've been trying to take it day by day. Some days I am ok, some days I am sad (like yesterday).

Special Issue Cover of the journal Molecular Ecology. the cover photo is a collage of various organisms and figures from the issue. The special issue it titled: Ecology of Gene Expression

my first first-author paper is (kinda*) on the cover of molecular ecology!!!

*zoom in on the first picture in the second row
**together with a bunch of cool gene expression studies

really excited to dive into the special issue!! #Evolution #PopGen

me!!!

graduating PhDs… anyone has a clue on how to not despair about our job prospects right now?

(happy to just vent too!)

A nonbinary flag (horizontal bands of yellow, white, purple, and black) with the text "gender should have error bars" and and image of error bars of various sizes superimposed on it. This came about as a joke made in a nonbinary scientist group I'm part of and someone immortalized it in this image. It struck a chord with every single one of us

Today is international nonbinary peoples day, so I'm gonna share a bit about how I figured out that I'm nonbinary. To start, I didn't realize I was nonbinary until I was 35 years old. This was for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest was that I simply never had the words for it
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Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

I'm sadly leaving Hawaii and the USA today. This NYT article, with comment from me, @solilyquy.bsky.social and @leafwax.bsky.social, explains one (of several) reasons why. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

Excited to have presented our research on geographic differences in auditory properties of Carolina Chickadees at the Animal Behavior Conference! Grateful for the opportunity to share our work and connect with colleagues!
@animbehsociety.bsky.social

#ABS2025 #Bioacoustics #auditory #Chickadees

house sparrow

“high-grading bias is a concern whenever a small subset of markers are first chosen to explain differences among groups based on their degree of difference and are subsequently reused to estimate the degree of difference among those groups.”

‘Highly‐Informative’ Genetic Markers Can Bias Conclusions: Examples and General Solutions High-grading bias is the overestimation power in a subset of loci caused by model overfitting. Using both empirical and simulated datasets, we show that high-grading bias can cause severe overestimat...

New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!!

We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution

Evergreen reminder that wind turbines are not even remotely a leading cause of human-driven bird mortality. This is classic concern trolling in the interest of fossil fuels - if they really cared about birds they'd focus on domestic cats and building glass. And what's not shown here: climate change.

it’s still mind boggling to me that i AM a scientist and people are reading my work!!!!!